Explain why the four steps involved in the control function are important. How are the various ratios used by accountants and managers differently in the control function? Support your claims with specific examples from required materials and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Your initial post should be a minimum of 200 words.

To prepare:

• Review the Aravind case study in the Learning Resources.
• With the 5 I’s of marketing in mind, reflect on the health care service provided by the organization and its personnel.

The Assignment

In a 4- to 5-page paper, address the following:

• Using the 5 I’s of marketing, analyze the health care service provided by the organization in the scenario.
  • Inconsistency: Is there consistency in the quality of care?
  • Inseparability: When providing the service, do providers demonstrate biases toward or against patients and their families (i.e., racial biases, age biases, gender biases, etc.)?
  • Intangibility: What are the intangible characteristics of providers (i.e., demeanor, posture, etc.)? How do providers behave toward patients?
  • Interaction with consumers: Is the organization patient-centered or physician-centered?
  • Inventory: How much time is spent on providing the service and how much time is spent on non-service-related activities?
• Recommend strategies to market this service to health care consumers. Include how these strategies might improve operations.

Submit a 2,500 to 3,000 word –plus references-written assignment on the following:

Draw on a real-life public or non-profit human resource issue that is currently in the news, and assume that as a result of your research you have become the subject matter expert (SME) for this HR topic. Good sources for this can be FedSmith.com, Governing.com, SHRM.org, hrmorning.com, HR.BLR.com, ipma@ipma-hr.org; etc., Feel free to use the popular media as well. ( minimum of five articles) . Please do not use wikis, blogs, politically motivated websites or dictionaries as sources. In addition, you can use books, websites (Federal OPM, OHR), or BLS might be good to review as well as individual state HR sites) or any other authentic sources. You may augment the popular literature review with additional peer reviewed journal articles.

1. Build your literature review on the real-life news topic you chose to explore by researching relevant issues.

As you read, make note of the following:

• Identify the author’s thesis. What is she arguing for/against? Identify the context of the argument.

• Why is he/she arguing this? Do they offer a solution to the problem(s) they raise?

• Does it seem plausible?

• Note any supporting evidence and all of the main ideas. How does the author support his/ her argument? What kind of appeals does the author make in order to persuade the reader? For example, does he/she use: pathos (appeal to emotion), logos (appeal to reason/logic), &/or ethos (appeal to credibility)

Your submission should include the following:

1. Summarize the key points of news articles and emphasize its relevance to public and nonprofit HR management. In addition, make connections to your readings and other assignments.

2. Provide a critical analysis of the arguments (for and against) made in the popular articles. Make sure to support your analysis with arguments from the course and any scholarly articles you wish to consult

3. Suggest what the future will bring for the issue you have researched.

Excessive wordiness or brevity will negatively affect your grade.

Use the style guide for the American Psychological Association (APA) for proper form.

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:  Analyze a business organization for determining the business requirements related to information technology systems  Articulate the role and function of information systems in business organizations for how they impact business operations  Recommend appropriate information technology options for effectively supporting business operations  Recommend basic security considerations related to business information systems for effectively securing company data Prompt Imagine that you work for the small brick-and-mortar business described in the final project case scenario. The owner of your business wants to focus on generating new revenue through e-commerce, but she knows that this change in operations requires the company to integrate new technology. To gain an understanding of what the business might need for technology, she has asked you to create a business systems analysis. In this analysis, you will clearly introduce the problem that your business is facing. Then, you will determine the business requirements for solving that problem, including the requirements that any new technology needs to meet. Next, you will explain how your competitors are using the two technologies in which you are investing, to determine 2 whether those technologies are appropriate for your business. Finally, you will propose your recommendations for the technology solution that best meets the needs of your business, including what your business owner must consider in regard to security and privacy of company data. Select two of the following technologies to focus on in your business systems analysis paper:  Big data and knowledge management  Wireless, mobile computing, and mobile commerce  Social computing  Cloud computing  Business analytics and business intelligence solutions  Intelligent systems Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Introduction: In this section, you will briefly introduce the small business from the case scenario, and the problem that it is trying to solve. A. Clearly state the problem that the business owner is seeking to solve. Be sure to address the question of what your business ultimately wants to do. B. Identify and briefly describe the two technologies from the list provided that you will research in your business systems analysis. II. Business Requirements: In this section, you will determine what the business requirements are for solving the stated problem, and establish the criteria that will help form your technology recommendations. You will also articulate why the business owner should undertake the project of integrating new technology. A. Explain the objectives of undertaking this project to integrate new technology. In others words, what should the project accomplish, and how does it support the goal of your business? B. Provide a project description that explains the purpose of the project. Be sure to address the following: i. What does your business need to do to satisfy the objectives? ii. What are the desired results at the end of the project? iii. Why is it important for your business owner to consider implementing new technology? C. State the key technological requirements that will be required of any new technology in order to effectively solve your business’s problem. In other words, what specifically does the technology need to be capable of doing? (These are the technology requirements in the decision matrix.) 3 III. Competitors and Technology: In this section, you will describe two competing companies that operate in the same industry as your business. You will also explain how a company uses the two technologies that you are investigating in order to determine if the technology may be appropriate for your business to use. Remember that a list of competing companies was provided to you in the final project case scenario. A. Technology One: Select one company in the same industry as your own that uses this technology. Briefly describe what that company does and how it uses this technology to support its business in general. Include specific examples. B. Technology Two: Select one company in the same industry as your own that uses this technology. Briefly describe what that company does and how it uses this technology to support its business in general. Include specific examples. C. Referring to what you learned in your research on the companies above, explain one specific way in which one of the companies is benefitting from technology, and describe the potential benefit to your business if you were to adopt the same approach. IV. Technology Solutions: In this section, you will discuss how each of the two technologies meets the technology requirements that you identified in section II. Use your decision matrix to guide your responses. A. Technology One: Explain how well this technology meets the technology requirements of your business. Be sure to address which technology requirements the technology meets, and where there are gaps. B. Technology Two: Explain how well this technology meets the technology requirements of your business. Be sure to address which technology requirements the technology meets, and where there are gaps. V. Recommendations: In this section, you will recommend the technology solution that you believe is most appropriate for your business based on how well each technology meets your business’s technology requirements. A. Recommend a technology solution for your business, and defend why that solution is appropriate. You may recommend only one technology or any combination of the two that you investigated. B. Explain the overall benefit of your recommended technology solution to your business. Consider the following: C. How will it will it enhance efficiency? i. How will it position your business for future growth as you move online? VI. Basic Security Considerations: In this section, you will briefly explain what the owner of your business must consider in regard to security and privacy if they choose to adopt your recommendations. A. Explain the security features your recommended technology solution should have. B. Briefly explain what your business should consider in regard to security and privacy as you seek out third-party vendors for the proposed technology. C. Briefly describe the internal safeguards that should be put in place in your business to guard against loss or misuse of company data. Provide examples.

THIS WILL REQUIRED THE TUTOR ADD THE FEEDBACK FROM PROJECT 1 AND 2 INTO THIS FINAL PROJECT. THESE FEEDBACK WILL PROVIDED.

This project involves reading the following materials and writing a detailed summary which addresses the associated questions. The readings are available in the Google Drive folder (“Project-Readings.pdf”). If you have a particular source or topic you wish to pursue, please feel free to talk to me about it one day after class.

Our textbook leaves out so much material, particularly detail about social life in the early modern period. This project will address some of these topics.

First Reading: From Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1975).

Social rituals were a big part of life in the past because they helped to knit together many aspects of life, and even social classes. They also served to settle social tensions that arose. This reading discusses some of these phenomena.

Your particular assignment is to write a fairly detailed summary of the material and, within it, address the following questions. Please cite specific evidence from the reading.

Some guiding questions:
1. In what ways were different age groups involved in the rituals of “misrule”? 2. What social problems did the Abbeys of Misrule tend to solve?
3. How were different social classes part of these rituals?

Second Reading: From Merry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

The history of women has become a huge topic within the academy. This reading deals with the most basic aspect of a woman’s life, her biology and how it related to social customs and expectations in the early modern period.

Your particular assignment is to write a fairly detailed summary of the material and, within it, address the following questions. Please cite specific evidence from the reading.

Some guiding questions:
1. What were the “stages” in a woman’s life, and how are they described? 2. In what ways was sexuality important?
3. Were women ever seen as a threat to men?
4. Did any women rebel against the cultural constraints of their culture?

There is no particular length requirement, but to do a rigorous job I would say that the minimum altogether would be at least between four to six pages, if typed and double-spaced.